In the books of Carlos Castaneda there is the term "Man of Knowledge". In our language, it can be translated, as a person, acting in any conditions as efficiently as possible. You can say that a person of knowledge is a perfect person. And on the way to this perfection, the man of knowledge, there are 4 enemies.
The first three are fear, clarity and strength. The fourth is old age . If you can not meet with some enemies, for example with clarity or force, then you will have to meet with old age necessarily.
Don Juan said that in old age a person wants to lie down, relax and relax. It would seem that this is bad? The man worked all his life and now he deserved a little rest. So it is so, but old age is not age. Old age comes to us every day, even in youth.
When we come home from work tired, we say to ourselves: "I did a good job, you can rest." And such a thought is a thought of old age. Every time we allow ourselves to relax (not physically, but mentally), then we are enveloped in old age.And no matter how old we are: 15, 25 or 30 - old age visits us every day. And we succumb to it.
It is not meant that you do not need to rest. Rest is needed, but it must be part of the plan, part of the way. Sit in a restaurant with friends, celebrate a new year or a birthday, get warmed a couple of weeks in the sun - if it's not part of the plan of your journey, then it's old age.
Having become accustomed to aging in youth, we become helpless in old age. If you look at the older generation, our grandfathers and grandmothers who passed the war, sometimes wonder why they have so much power to work at their age ... They just did not get old when they were young. In those days, there was no time to relax. Perhaps we should take an example from them? ... Stay forever young, friends.
